Dauren Kurugliev

Dauren Khalidovich Kurugliev (Russian: Даурен Халидович Куруглиев; 12 July 1992, Makhachkala) is a Russian mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler of Lezgin descent. He is a 2019 European Games gold medalist and a European champion.

Dauren Kurugliev
Kurugliev in 2020
Personal information
Native nameДаурен Халидович Куруглиев
Full nameDauren Khalidovich Kurugliev
National team Russia
Born (1992-07-12) 12 July 1992
Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
CountryDagestan, Russia
SportSport wrestling
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubDynamo wrestling club
Coached byImanmurza Aliev

Kurugliev won junior titles including the Russian Junior National Championships in 2011 and the North Caucasian Federal District championships in 2011 and 2013.[1] He competed in the World Cup 2015 in Los Angeles, California and won all three wrestling matches there; he defeated three-time NCAA All-American champion of the Penn State Nittany Lions Wrestling Ed Ruth from the United States (by fall), Usukhbaatar Purevee of Mongolia and Aleksander Gostiev of Azerbaijan. After competing in the American World Cup, he lost in the second round of the 2015 Russian Freestyle Wrestling Championships and so quit his participation there. On 5 July 2015, he lost in the final of the Ali Aliyev Memorial, losing there to Shamil Kudiyamagomedov of Russia.[2]

Kurugliev trains with world champion Abdusalam Gadisov. He is a National Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling.

In 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 86 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[3][4]

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. "Dauren Kurugliev". wrestdag.ru. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  2. "Ali Aliyev memorial results". wrestdag.ru. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  3. Shefferd, Neil (18 December 2020). "Russia close UWW Individual Championships in style with four more golds on final day". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. "2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
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